In 2011 IBM's Watson computer beat two Jeopardy grand masters to demonstrate the power of Cognitive Computing. In this video, Chris Madison, will do a deep dive into the Watson cognitive services available on IBM Bluemix. This will help developers to understand what's available from the seven cognitive services. Chris covers the inputs and outputs for each service and discusses examples of how to use them. Join Chris for deep dive into the Watson services and his follow up videos demonstrating the step by step process for building your own Watson powered application. Listeners will walk away with the practical knowledge of how to put these services into their applications and to see just how easy it is to get started with Watson services on Bluemix.

To build and run quality mobile applications, you need an enterprise-strength platform that addresses the broader backend integration issues including security and data access management. You need a platform that can scale app development and management across your organization; that can accelerate backend integration, simplify ongoing maintenance and enable you to build once and deploy across virtually any device.

Developers are responding to the demand and high expectations for mobile apps by building native mobile apps. This approach can be more costly because you have to develop code for each platform. The benefit, however, is native mobile apps can use the full capability of the mobile device. Read the white paper and start improving your organization’s ability to deliver more effective native mobile apps

Discover the advantages of an IBM MobileFirst Developer solution for mobile application development compared with do-it-yourself options.

At the risk of stating the exceptionally obvious: Without storage, we would have no digital data. From being very much—and so-named at the time—a peripheral to early batch-based and CPU-focused IT effort, storage is now front and center in contemporary IT. This paper reviews the increasingly popular OpenStack cloud platform and the abilities that IBM storage solutions provide to enable and enhance OpenStack deployments. But before addressing those specifics, it is useful to remind ourselves of the “whys and wherefores” of cloud computing.

The mobile application development platform market continues to grow, evolve and mature in response to escalating customer requirements. We assess the major vendors that enable enterprise IT developers to create mobile applications for customers, partners and employees.

Since smartphones launched in 2007, their number has surpassed the 1.5 billion mark — equivalent to nearly one-quarter of the world’s population. The convenience and control afforded by the smartphone and its cousin, the tablet, have changed what we expect and want in mobile: experiences driven by our individual context that delight us as employees and consumers. Forrester calls this the “mobile mind shift.” Successful applications build relationships with customers, while unsuccessful applications waste resources and turn customers away. It has never been more critical for companies to get it right the first time. Download this paper to learn about the key findings from Forrester's August 2014 mobile app study.